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Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

"ANTED-Feeling anxious to locate In Kansas
w would like situation either road or in house
with some good firm. groceries preferred; % years
experience; the best Of reference given. Address
John II Laberteaux Benton Barbor Mich b., or Peters
Hardware Co.. Emporia, Kan. Sp5wt
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

LNoR SALE-Buy some OF those choice lots In Aiier
II ton. Ad joining the Burton Car WORKS and bull q
q house Them IL viii sell for big money In ~ day
AshbeI WEIGH room :. Biting block. sElH
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

WyANTED-Psrties rooming on Waco, Sherman
w or Riverview aves., can get first class board ct
SD Waco. tStf
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

NOR sALE-LotA In Aller.on. sd joining the Bur
Il ton Car Works; the highest ground Aad the
choicest location Ashbei WEIGH, room s. Biting
lock sEiu
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25

untidiness. Typhoid fever and diph-
liberia rise out of just such uncleanly
corners as l find in your kitchen and pan
try. Purify the place at once; avoid doc
tors bills; shut the door on druggists
Housekeeping can be made one of the
fine arts; it should be so. What you save
you earn. And in addition to all this.
your husbands house is made beautiful
and home-like. Now, my dear, don't
know much about careers, but in my
eyes no career could be more attractive,
more necessary, in fact, than this Will
you give 1t a trial, Mabel?"
Eyes" said Mabel, in low voice. Il
will give it a trial. II don't know how
it is, but l never thought of all these
things before, Miss Crutchett'
There must be beginning to every
thing, my dear, said the old lady, gently
stroking the sunny braids of Mabel's
down-drooping head; land you are as
yet but novice in life's journey"
Mabel Verinder thought it all over
She decided to take her eccentric old
friends advice, and at the end of the
first month, she added up the debit and
credit accounts of the household.
Victory " she cried Il have
earned, or saved-or both-forty dollars
this month by doing my own housekeep-
ing. "Tve had everything in exquisite
order, and the same supplies go twice as
far as they did in Christine's time And,
oh, have enjoyed it so much What
do care for typewriting and legal copy
ing, and authorship, and decorative art
I've found a career that is worth dozen
of them"
"And really" said Charley, ''do you
know May is the jolliest little house
keeper going And my Aunt Selma says
it does her good to see her beating eggs
and sugar, and counting the spoons and
napkin rings
Mabel smiled and colored. She would
not have owned it for the world, but the
appreciation of Charley's Aunt Selma
signified a great deal to her.-Saturday
NI0Ht
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25
A MOOD.

1t is good to strive against wind and rain
In the keen, sweet weather that autumn
brings.
The wild horse shakes not the drops from his
name,
The wild bird ficks not the wet from her
wings,
In zladder fashion than toss free
The mist-dulled gold Of my bright hairs
flag,
What tins the winds on their heel-wings
lag,
And all the tempest is friends with me-
None can reach me TO wound or cheer;
Sound of weeping and sound Of song
Neither may trouble me: 1 can hear
But the winds loud laugh, and the sibilant,
strong,
LuIIed rush of the rain through the sapless
weeds
D rare, dear boys, we are here again!
will WOO we as maidens are wooed Of
With oaths forgotten and broken creeds!
Ye shall not lack for the suns fierce shining
With the gold of my hair will 1 make ye
glad;
For your blown, red forests give no repining-
Here my lips: will We still be sad!
Comfort ye, comfort We, days of cloud,
Days of shadow, of wrath, of blast
who love We am come at last
Laugh to welcome me, cry aloud!
For wild am 1 as thy winds and rains
Free to come and to go as they:
Loves moon sways not the tides of my veins;
There is no voice that can bid me stay.
Out and away the drenched, brown lea!
Out to the great, glad heart of the year!
Nothing to grieve for nothing to fear;
Fetterless, lawless, maiden. free!
-AnleIie Rires an Ha1per's Monthly.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25
Rats as FOOD,

When you are us hungry as l have
frequently been, rat is an excellent dish.
During the war | was for fifteen months
an inmate of the Federal prison at Rock
Island, Ill. There were -, 600 of us
Confederates there, of whom 4, 800 are
there yet, buried beneath the Illinois soil.
We didn't have any Delmonico dinners
in the prison, and bills of fare were en-
tirely useless. We were given only one
meal day, and we were always hungry.
One of our favOrite amusements was TO
sit around and discuss what and how
much we would eat when we got out of
prison. In order to help out our table
we used to catch rats, which were nu-
merous inside the prison stOckade. Rats
when properly cooked make quite
toothsOme dish, and an ordinary epicure
could not tell them from squirrel. As
a rat catcher l was not very successful.
There was one shrewd, gray old fellow,
with whom l worried for weeks in vain
endeavor to catch him. / knew that if l
did get him he would furnish pretty
tough stakes, but was very anxious to
entrap him. 1t annoyed me to be out
done by a miserable rat. l used to place
a little moose around the hole IN the floor
through which he entered his burrOw.
Just outside l placed bit of bread, eX-
pecting to catch him by the neck when
he poked his head out after the food.
Do you know that as long as | kept the
moose there that blamed old rat would
only thrust the tip or his nose from the
hole? When l removed the moose he
walked out boldly and devoured the
bread l fooled with him for a long
time, but I had to give it up, and 1
guess he is there yet, as gray and as wise
as ever.-L0uisciUe Courier-J0urnal.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25
Schools in Alaska.

The houses of the natives are all
numbered in large figures, painted in
black over the front and only entrance
to their homes, the numbers running
consecutively. This metropolitan feature
wac introduced by one Captain Glass,
| United States military officer, then
stationed at Sitka, and was inaugurated
as a military measure before the civil
Government was established, and for the
purpose of locating and identifying
truant Indian child when absent from
the Indian school during the hours of
its session. At that time the Indian
children were compelled by the military
authorities to attend school, each scholar
being obliged to wear a tag made of tin
and fastened by means of string around
the neck. The tag was about three
times the size of a silver dollar, and bore
the number of the child in school and
the number of the house in which it
lived
If child was found on the street dur
ing school hours the Indian policeman,
who was also chief of the tribe,
whose name is AnneshootZ, was under
strict orders to take the number
of the tag and report it. The
next morning the head Indian
of the house to which the child belonged
was summoned to appear and answer for
the absence of the truant, and if such alb
sence was found to have been wilfuI the
head Indian was fined or imprisoned. A
few fines were found sufficient, and had
the effect of procuring prompt and
punctual attendance of all the children.
This means was found necessary in
order to overcome the antipathy of the
parents against having their children
educated, and thereby drawn away from
the ancient customs, traditions and
methods of living of their race. This
custom has fallen into disuse since the es-
tablishment of civil government in May,
1884. The parents have come to know
and understand the benefits derived from
the education of their children, and are
now quite ready to lend their assistance
in compelling them to attend the school.
The term of school commences in
September of each year, and continues
forty-four weeks. There are ten teachers
and 105 scholars, with about equal pro-
portions of boys and girls, running in
age from five to eighteen years, and
representing the several tribes of South
eastern Alaska. They are taught the
primary English branches, and the boys
are also instructed in blacksmithing,
cOoperage, cabinet making and carpentry,
while the girls are taught sewing, knit
ting, cooking and various other house
hold Duties Chicago Herald.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25
WISE WORDS.

The key of fate is in our own hands
VIC often unlock it and then throw the
key away.
They also work who plant the roses.
else were We little better than the beasts
of the field
Habit, like the ivy of our walls. ce-
ments and consolidates that which il
cannot destroy.
When the forenoons of life are wasted
there is not much hope of peaceful and
fruitful evening.
1t IS great mistake TO set up your
own standard of right and wrong and
judge people accordingly.
To tell what man says, pay attention
TO the tongue; TO ascertain what he
means, pay attention TO the eye.
A graceful presence bespeaks accep-
lance, gives force to language, and helps
to convince by look and posture
Perfect symmetry never produces the
effect of vastness. 1t is only by study
ing the details that we comprehend the
whole.
We are at best but stewards Of what
we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so
Unsuitable that it is not in the power of
iberality to contest it.
Courage that grows from constitution
often fOrSakes the man when he has occa-
sion for 1t; courage which arises from a
sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25
A Big Money Vault.

The Treasury Department at Washing
ton is now building what is undoubtedly
the largest single money vault in the
world, and which will hold, when full,
800, 900. 900 in silver dollars. 1t is in
the north court of the department, and
will be only few inches above the level
of the ground and will be covered with
turf. The contract for the brick work
has been let for $13, 900. 1t will be
eighty-nine feet long by fifty feet wide,
and eleven feet nine inches high, inside
dimensions. The walls will be four feet
six inches thick, the foundation being
carried down three feet below the vault
level and resting on bed of concrete six
inches thick.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25
Browns Little Joke.

! why, Brown, how short your coat is" said
Jones one day to his friend Brown, who wittiy
replied: YES; but it will be long enough be-
fore get another Some men spend so much
for medicines that neither heal nor help them,
that new clothes is with them like angels visits
few and far between. Internal fevers, weak
ness of the lungs, shOrtness of breath and lin
gering coughs, soon yield to the magic influence
of that royal remedy, DR.. R.V. Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery"
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25

BOSTON has a knife grinder not needy, par
ticularly, but exceedingly muscular. so that he
is renowned for his strength. One of his per-
formances, as handed down by admirers, was
street stables and carrying him bodily into the
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25
City Hotel SWells.

See the city hotel sweIls.
Howling swells
What asinine assurance each attitude now
tells,
How they ogle, ogle, ogle
All the girls who pass the door,
And each rockies, rakish rogueu
Keep it up till he's four-scorei
DaShlng SwellS
Washing bellies
From early morn till late at night in front Of
the hotels,
Donkey swells
Monkey swells!
Oh, why don't the proprietors come out and
mash these SwellS?
-RoteI Nail
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25
CURES ALL HuM0RS

irom a common Blotch, or Eruption. 10 tha
worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, " Fever-sores, -
Scaly or Rough Skin, in short, all diseases
caused by bad blood are conquered by this
powerful, purifying, and invigorating medi-
cine. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under
its benign influence. Especially has il mani
Tested its potency in curing letter. Eczema,
Eryspelas, Boils, Carbuncles. Sore Eyes. Scroll
ulous Sores and Swellings, Hip-joint Disease.
I" White Swellings," Goitre or Thick Neck.
and Enlarged Glands. Send ten cents in
stamps for a large Treatise with coIored
plates, on Skin Diseases. or the same amount
for Treatise on ScrofulOus Affections.
"FoR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE"
Thoroughly cleanse IL by using DIR. Pierce,s
Golden Medical Discovery, and good
digestion, fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital
strength and bodily health will be established
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25

The great success of many agents employed
by b. F. Johnson & Co, of Richmond, is pref
ty good evidence of the excellence and pOpu-
larity of the books they offer to sell through
their agents. This is a reliable house, and any
contract made with them you can depend on
will be faithfully carried out
ROYAL GLUE mends anything! Broken Chi.
ma Glass Wood, Free Walls at Drugs & Gro
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25

Functional arrangement of the female sys-
tenn is quickly cured by the use of DR.. r. v.
Pierce's 'FavOrite Prescription" 1t removes
pain and restores health and strength. By all
druggists.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25

You will never have a friend if you must
have one without failingS.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25
$500 Reward.

The former proprietor of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy for years made standing, public of,
fer in all American newspapers of $500 reward
for a case of catarrh that he could not cure.
The present proprietors have renewed this Of
er with the ''Douche," and all other appliances
advised to be used in connection with it. No
catarrh patient is longer able to say Il cannot
be cured" You get $500 in of failure.
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25
ll1HAT
Ais
YOU?

Do you feel dull. languid, lOw-spirited, life
less and indescribably miserable, both physi-
fulness or bloating after eating. or of gone
ness or emptiness of stomach in the morn
ing, tongue coated. bitter bad taste in
mouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent
headaches, blurred eyesight, " floating specks"
before the eyes, nervous prOstration or ex-
alternating with chilly sensations. sharp.
biting, transient pains here and there. cold
feet, drOwsiness after meals, wakefulness,
disturbed and undressing sleep. constant,
indescribable feeling of dread, or of impend-
ing calamity?
If you have all, or any considerable number
Of these symptoms, you are suffering from
that most common of American malades-
Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated
with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The more
greater the number and diversity of symp-
toms. No matter what stage il has reached.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
will subdue il, if taken according 10 direc-
tons for reasonable length OF time. II not
cured, complications multiply and Consump-
rheumatism, Kidney Disease, or other grave
maladies are quite liable TO set in and sooner
or later. induce fatal termination.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
cOvery acts powerfully upon the Liver and
through that great blood purifying organ,
cleanses the system OF all blood taints and i'm
purities, from whatever cause arising. IL is
equally efficacious in acting upon the Kid
neys, and other eXcrctOry organs cleansing.
strengthening, and healing their diseases. As
an appetiZing, restorative tonic, IL promotes
digestion and nutrition, thereby building up
both flesh and strength. In malarial districts.
this wonderful medicine has gained great
celebrity in curing Fever and Ague. Chills and
Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred diseases.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-10-25

To have what we want is riches, but to be
able to do without is power.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-30
What We Are Made OF.

Professor Langley.
In the South Kensington Museum
there is an immense collection OF OBJ
jects appealing to all tastes and all
classes, and we find there at the same
time people belonging to the wealthy
and cultivated part of society, lingering
over the Louis Seize cabinets or the old
maiolica, and the artisan and his wife
studying the statements ITO the rela-
tive economy of baking powders, or ad-
miring Tippoo Saib's wooden tiger.
There is one shelf, however, which
seems to have some attraction COM
mon to all social grades, for its con-
tents appear to be of equal interest to
the peer and costermonger. 1t is the
representation of a man resolved into
his chemical elements, or rather, an
exhibition of the materials of which
the human body is composed. There
is q definite amount of water, for in
stance, in our blood and tissues, and
there on the shelf are just
so many gallons of water in q large
vessel. Another jar shows the exact
quantity of carbon in us; smaller bot
ties contain our iron and our phos-
phorus in just proportion, while 9th
ers exhibit still other constituents of
the body, and the whole reposes on
the shelf, as if ready for the coming of
a new Frankenstein to recreate the
original man and make him walk
about again as wedo. The little walls
that contain the different elements
which we all bear about in small pro-
portions are more numerous, and
they suggest not merely the complex
ity of our constitutions but the iden-
tity of our elements with those we
have found by the spectroscope, not
alone in the sun, but even in the dis
tant stars and nebulae, for this won
derful instrument of the new astron.
omy can find the traces of poison in
a stomach or analyze a star, and it's
conclusion leads us to think that the
ancients were nearly right when they
called man q microcosm, Or little uni
verse. We have literally within our
bodies samples of the most important
elements OF which the great universe
without is composed, and you and l
are not only like each other, and
brothers in humanity, but children of
the sun and stars in more literal
sense, having bodies actually made in
large part of the same things that
made Sirius and Aldsbaran. They
and we are near relatives,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-30
MINNESOTA NEWS.
TO County Superintendent.

State Superintendent Kiehle has just is
sued to the county superintendent OF the
State q circular in which he gives a sum-
mary of the important changes effected by
recent legislation. The following points
taken from the extended circular will i'll
dictate it's important features.
The fact that the legislature did not
re.enact the law OF 1885, which changed
the place of distribution from district clerk
to the county agency will not effect the ex-
listing plan of distribution. AS the law
now stands, acquisitions will be made by
county superintendents for all books OF
the state series DIS they are required by the
schools. Common schools are re uired to
use the books OF the state series to the ex-
clusion OF all other books OF the same
kind or grade.
The county treasurer is prohibited from
paving money OF the school fund to treas
urers OF common school districts, except
upon the presentation OF certificate by
the county SUPERINTENDENT that the school
is using the books Of the state series.
have undertaken to secure a thorough re-
vision and improvement OF the text book
series. Some OF the books are entirely re-
newed, others have been added, so that
with the completion OF the work begun we
shall have a series of books that will rea-
sonably satisfy the demands OF good in
struction. The new price list is now ready.
The new practical arithmetic and the new
common school geography will be ready
for the schools about Sept. l. | wish to
urge the prompt introduction OF the revis-
ed series, and the sooner the change is
made the better. Besides it is imperative
that this chronic dissatisfaction with our
text books be removed.
The circular then gives the various
points in the law recently enacted relative
to temperance hygiene and states that
the commission appointed to recommend
a suitable text book will meet at an early
day, and will make a selection OF one ormore
books that may be supplied at the beginning
OF the next year. The circular continues:
The law provides for the compilation by
the superintendent OF public instruction
and the presidents OF the normal schools
of full catalogue OF books suitable for
Libraries OF different grades OF the public
schools, and to make contract with a
publisher to fill orders from this list at the
lowest rates. This list will doubtless be
ready for use by September next. Appll-
cations for loans must be sustained by @
Majority vote OF electors.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-30
Mrs. Mackay's Jewels.

It is said in Paris that Mrs. John
Mackay owns the finest jewels in the
world. Two specimens certainly take
precedence over any of the kind that
are known. One is a sapphire that
she bought for $15O,00O from Rus
sian prince. 1t measures a centime-
tire, about four-tenths of an inch in
diameter, and has no defect. She
ownes also the most splendid emerald
known. Among her other toys is a
necklace of pearls worth 100000
and q set of corals, comprising a
brooch, crown, bracelet, ETC., all oil
the most delicate rose color, each
piece covered with diamonds. lttook
two years searching to complete this
collection of gems, and there exists
only one like it, and that belongs to
the Queen of Portugal. Further than
these is q pair of solitaires worth
S425,OOO. One of them was bought
at the sale of the effects of the Duke OF
Brunswick, and the jeweller who was
commissioned with securing its mate
was upward OF two years in getting it.
Most of these jewels, as well as
great quantity of invalua BILE
lace, will probably come, some
day, to the Princess Colonna, the
daughter of Mrs. Mackay,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-30
Sheets and Pillow Cases.

Allow two and three-fourths of a
yard for each sheet, unless they are to
be of an extra length. This allows
for an inch and quarter hem on
each end. 1t is better economy to
hem both ends the same width, hav-
ing no up or down to the sheet. Do
not cut the material, but make an in
cision and then rapidly tear across
the cloth. If it has been calendered
out of line try and pull it straight,
but on no account cut it,
for after it has been laun-
dried it will be one or two inches
shorter on one side than the other,
and will always be irregular. Pillow
cases are plainly hemmed or hem
stitched to fancy. They are usually
of q finer material than sheets and
perfectly plain. Any ornamentation
desired is on shams, which are in very
popular use. Pillow cases can be
made square or long. If the latter al
low them quarter of yard longer
than the pillow. All grades OF linen
and cotton are now bought for both
sheets and pillow cases.